| King James Bible | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Then Job answered and said, | 1Then Job answered: |
| 2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. | 2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all. |
| 3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? | 3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying? |
| 4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. | 4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you. |
| 5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. | 5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief. |
| 6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? | 6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away? |
| 7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. | 7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family. |
| 8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. | 8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me. |
| 9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. | 9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes. |
| 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. | 10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me. |
| 11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. | 11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked. |
| 12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. | 12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target; |
| 13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. | 13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground. |
| 14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. | 14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior. |
| 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. | 15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust. |
| 16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; | 16My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes; |
| 17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. | 17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure. |
| 18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. | 18O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest. |
| 19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. | 19Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. |
| 20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. | 20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God. |
| 21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! | 21Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor! |
| 22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. | 22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return. |
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